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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1976-02-26

Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1976-02-26, page 01

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VOL. 54 NO. 9
FEBRUARY 26, 1976 - ADAR 1 25
els Conference On Soviet Jewry Calls iet Union To Let Jews Emigrate Freely
BRUSSELS — Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the militant Jewish Defense League, is carried from Brussels' Palais des Congress by Belgian police after he attempted to force his way into the World Conference on Soviet Jewry. Later, Rabbi Kahane was taken to the Brussels airport by the police and expelled from the country.
RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO
BRUSSELS (WNS) - "Let My People Go," was the theme as 1200 persons from 32 countries gathered here for three days at the Second World Conference on Soviet Jewry. • The conference concluded) with a call for the Soviet Union to implement the Helsinki Declaration, to respect its own constitution and laws and "recognize and respect the right of Jews in the USSR to be united with their brethren' in the land of Israel, the-Jewish historic homeland." The .conference
Report Syria And Jordan Are Moving Toward Establishing A Federation
By Tuvia Mendelson
JERUSALEM (JTA) ~ - "Well informed West Bank sources" say that Jordan and Syria are moving toward the establishment of a federation to be known as the "United Arab State" consisting of two autonomous regions having a combined central government, a unified army and command and a joint parliament that will meet alternately in Amman-and Damascus. The sources were quoted in an article published in the Jerusalem Post Feb. 17 by its Middle East correspondent Anan Safadi. According to the writer, the federation will be proclaimed upon completion of discussions that the sources say have been going on for eight months. These discussions are related to the integration of the policies and economies of the two countries and are aimed at drafting a joint constitution that will seek to reconcile the differences inherent in the
' socialist regime in Syria and
,- the Jordanian monarchy, the Post said. Other matters that have to be settled, the
- sources said, are the presidency and the location of the capital of the projected federation. Under the plan, Syria and Jordan will each become an autonomous region of the /•United Arab . State."
' President Hafez Assad will continue to be chief of state of Syria and King Hussein Will continue to rule in Jordan. But the West Bank
informants who, according to Safadi have close ties with Amman, said "Hussein has- indicated mat he is prepared to be second in command to Assad.
The new federation will come into being by next June "unless unforeseen devel¬ opments cause difficulties between the two countries," the informants told the Post. Hussein and Assad are scheduled to meet next
month before the Jordanian rulerleaves on ah extensive trip - abroad - that will-take him to the U.S., Mexico, Japan and Australia. Observe"* s here, commenting on the report, , said Hussein may be willing to enter into a federation with Syria even to the extent of deferring to Assad in order to guarantee the political survival of his (Continued on page id
Senate Adopts Foreign Aid Bill; Defeats Anti-Israel Amendment
By Joseph Polakoff
'WASHINGTON (JTA) - The Senate Feb. 18, debating the foreign aid authorization bill, rejected by a 79-8 vote a move to ban assistance to Israel if its armed forces attacked Lebanon. The amendment by Sen. James Abourezk (D. S.D.) to the bill was supported by one other Democrat,- Lee Metcalf of Montana, and six Repub¬ licans. The leaders of both parties, Hugh Scott (R. Pa.) and Mike Mansfield (D. Mont.), opposed the Abourezk amendment. In arguing for the amendment, Abourezk declared that "if we continue to furnish arms to Israel, eventually we will force Lebanon to go to somebody else for, military assistance . if the ytiew government in Lebanon wants to keep its credibility with the people." He said that "we drove Egypt,- other Arab states and the Pales¬
tinians into militancy" and by providing Israel with weapons the U.S. is, asking "increased militancy of Lebanon."
Sen Jacob K. Javits (R. N.Y.), supported by Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D. Wash.), in opposing Abourezk, -declared that the intent of the South Dakotan's amendment would lead to the destruction' of Israel. "Unless Israel gets U.S. assistance," Javits said, "she will be extinguished. All that nonsense we hear that (Yasir) Arafat is a moderate is our invention not his." Javits quoted Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organi¬ zation, as saying "You can have peace on my terms." Javits said by this Arafat means the destruction of Israel. Javits pointed out that the Arab terrorists used innocents in the Palestinian camps in southern Lebanon
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presidium also decided "to hold consultations at the earliest possible date with the i convening bodies and others about the appropriate means and structure to conduct and coordinate" the campaign on behalf of Soviet Jewry. While stressing the need for Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union, it called for freedom for religious practices by Jews within the USSR as well as the right to develop their cultural heritage and language. The conference provided a forum to focus attention on the problems of Soviet Jewry. Divergent views were expressed although the mofe militant delegates carried the day over moderates. ~ In a keynote address, Sen Frank Church (D. Idaho), a
- ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called on the
- U.S. government to support the cause of Soviet Jews with all its available diplomatic and political means.
Church at a press conference took issue with
' Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D. Wash.) who sent a message
' to Brussels that "we shall not retreat" from the Jackson Amendment linking U.S. trade benefits for the USSR' with Soviet emigra-
• tion policies. -Church, who supported the Jackson Amendment, said that it resulted "in fewer Jews being allowed to .leave; practically, we have thus lost ground." Church said U.S. support for Soviet Jews should be based on moral pressure being brought to bear on the Soviet Union.
Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin in a message to the conference said that "The present leadership in the Soviet Union has taken the first appropriate steps by recognizing in principle the right of Jews who so wish to emigrate to Israel."
' However, he said, "we will not reconcile ourselves to the continuing policy of intimi¬ dation and suffering inflicted on very many who seek permission to emigrate, so as to intimidate others from emigration. We, the Jewish people, will forever stand firm in our support of the religious and national rights of our Soviet Jewish brethren."
The delegates to the conference included 350 American Jews and non-
Jews. Rabbi Alexander M. ■ Schindler, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, urged both an international drive to permit the free emigration of Soviet Jews and a call to the USSR to allow the revival and revitalization of religious and cultural life for those Jews who wish to remain in the Soviet Union. He said the latter could not be done unless the Soviet government permitted Western Jewish scholars and teachers to come to the USSR to help create new centers for training rabbis, educators and teachers to assure the survival of Soviet Jewry. About 550 Soviet Jews, now
living in Israel, attended the conference. The conference opened with 35 Soviet Jews, led by former Red Army Maj. Grisha Feigin marching in waving a blue flag with a gold Star of David which Feigin said was the flag of Soviet Jewry. He presented it to Mrs. Meir. A group of Soviet Jews, who recently left the Soviet Union, told a press conference that conditions - have worsened in the USSR, anti-Semitism is increasing and the authorities are cracking down harder than ever before on would-be emigrants.
Christian delegates to the conference from the United States, Britain, Ireland,
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NEW YORK (WNS) — The Polish government has been asked to make full payment of all pensions and other insurance claims to Polish Jewish survivors of the Holocaust now living outside Poland. The request was made by the American Federation of Polish Jews in a memorandum presented to Vitold Ttomcrynsky, the Polish Ambassador in Washington. The Federation also asked that it be indemnified for Jewish property in Poland which was expropriated by the government. It also called on Polish authorities to preserve and restore Jewish cemeteries, permit the collection of Jewish religious and secular relics and allow them to be taken out of the country, and to permit free access to all historic records on Polish Jewry. The Federation also asked the Polish government to honor its promise "to hand over to the World Federation of Polish Jews one of the prison huts in the former Auschwitz camp so that it could be arranged as a memorial shrine to Jews martyred in that camp."
NEW YORK (WNS) — The people of Israel have sent 46,000 pounds of relief supplies to the earthquake- stricken people of Guatemala. The supplies were flown aboard an Israeli Boeing 707 and two Israeli-built Araya Stol aircrafts. One of the Aravas, which was being delivered to Guatemala by Israel Aircraft Industries, was loaded at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey with medical supplies donated by IAI. Meanwhile in Washington, B'nai B'rkh announced it was gathering funds, supplies and volunteers for Guatemala. Richard Holxer, of Panama City, chairman of B'nai B'rith's International Council, said that Guatemala's small Jewish community has reported no deaths "but widespread loss of material possessions." Max Trachtcberg, president of the B'nai B'rith lodge in Guatemala City, said the quake had severely damaged communal institutions, some of them beyond repair. A campaign for Spanish-speaking physicians to go to Guatemala has been organized by Perry Shertz, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., chairman of B'nai B'rith's Disaster Relief Committee, and Irving I. Gerson, of Metairie, La., who has headed B'nai B'rith hurricane relief driyes. In Los Angeles, Jack pu Weiler, chairman of the Amerieaa Joint Distribution Committee* presented a $10,000 ChecK en behalf of his organization to the Guatemalan' Consul .General for' relief of the earthquake victims. He also volunteered the service of JDC relief workers to aid the earthquake .victims,. ,
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LIBRARY, OHIO H.8TQR10AL SOCIETY
1 Q8H VELMA .AVE » , .
COLS. Oa» 43211 ' EXOH
VOL. 54 NO. 9
FEBRUARY 26, 1976 - ADAR 1 25
els Conference On Soviet Jewry Calls iet Union To Let Jews Emigrate Freely
BRUSSELS — Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the militant Jewish Defense League, is carried from Brussels' Palais des Congress by Belgian police after he attempted to force his way into the World Conference on Soviet Jewry. Later, Rabbi Kahane was taken to the Brussels airport by the police and expelled from the country.
RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO
BRUSSELS (WNS) - "Let My People Go," was the theme as 1200 persons from 32 countries gathered here for three days at the Second World Conference on Soviet Jewry. • The conference concluded) with a call for the Soviet Union to implement the Helsinki Declaration, to respect its own constitution and laws and "recognize and respect the right of Jews in the USSR to be united with their brethren' in the land of Israel, the-Jewish historic homeland." The .conference
Report Syria And Jordan Are Moving Toward Establishing A Federation
By Tuvia Mendelson
JERUSALEM (JTA) ~ - "Well informed West Bank sources" say that Jordan and Syria are moving toward the establishment of a federation to be known as the "United Arab State" consisting of two autonomous regions having a combined central government, a unified army and command and a joint parliament that will meet alternately in Amman-and Damascus. The sources were quoted in an article published in the Jerusalem Post Feb. 17 by its Middle East correspondent Anan Safadi. According to the writer, the federation will be proclaimed upon completion of discussions that the sources say have been going on for eight months. These discussions are related to the integration of the policies and economies of the two countries and are aimed at drafting a joint constitution that will seek to reconcile the differences inherent in the
' socialist regime in Syria and
,- the Jordanian monarchy, the Post said. Other matters that have to be settled, the
- sources said, are the presidency and the location of the capital of the projected federation. Under the plan, Syria and Jordan will each become an autonomous region of the /•United Arab . State."
' President Hafez Assad will continue to be chief of state of Syria and King Hussein Will continue to rule in Jordan. But the West Bank
informants who, according to Safadi have close ties with Amman, said "Hussein has- indicated mat he is prepared to be second in command to Assad.
The new federation will come into being by next June "unless unforeseen devel¬ opments cause difficulties between the two countries," the informants told the Post. Hussein and Assad are scheduled to meet next
month before the Jordanian rulerleaves on ah extensive trip - abroad - that will-take him to the U.S., Mexico, Japan and Australia. Observe"* s here, commenting on the report, , said Hussein may be willing to enter into a federation with Syria even to the extent of deferring to Assad in order to guarantee the political survival of his (Continued on page id
Senate Adopts Foreign Aid Bill; Defeats Anti-Israel Amendment
By Joseph Polakoff
'WASHINGTON (JTA) - The Senate Feb. 18, debating the foreign aid authorization bill, rejected by a 79-8 vote a move to ban assistance to Israel if its armed forces attacked Lebanon. The amendment by Sen. James Abourezk (D. S.D.) to the bill was supported by one other Democrat,- Lee Metcalf of Montana, and six Repub¬ licans. The leaders of both parties, Hugh Scott (R. Pa.) and Mike Mansfield (D. Mont.), opposed the Abourezk amendment. In arguing for the amendment, Abourezk declared that "if we continue to furnish arms to Israel, eventually we will force Lebanon to go to somebody else for, military assistance . if the ytiew government in Lebanon wants to keep its credibility with the people." He said that "we drove Egypt,- other Arab states and the Pales¬
tinians into militancy" and by providing Israel with weapons the U.S. is, asking "increased militancy of Lebanon."
Sen Jacob K. Javits (R. N.Y.), supported by Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D. Wash.), in opposing Abourezk, -declared that the intent of the South Dakotan's amendment would lead to the destruction' of Israel. "Unless Israel gets U.S. assistance," Javits said, "she will be extinguished. All that nonsense we hear that (Yasir) Arafat is a moderate is our invention not his." Javits quoted Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organi¬ zation, as saying "You can have peace on my terms." Javits said by this Arafat means the destruction of Israel. Javits pointed out that the Arab terrorists used innocents in the Palestinian camps in southern Lebanon
(CONTINUED QN PAGE 10)
presidium also decided "to hold consultations at the earliest possible date with the i convening bodies and others about the appropriate means and structure to conduct and coordinate" the campaign on behalf of Soviet Jewry. While stressing the need for Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union, it called for freedom for religious practices by Jews within the USSR as well as the right to develop their cultural heritage and language. The conference provided a forum to focus attention on the problems of Soviet Jewry. Divergent views were expressed although the mofe militant delegates carried the day over moderates. ~ In a keynote address, Sen Frank Church (D. Idaho), a
- ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called on the
- U.S. government to support the cause of Soviet Jews with all its available diplomatic and political means.
Church at a press conference took issue with
' Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D. Wash.) who sent a message
' to Brussels that "we shall not retreat" from the Jackson Amendment linking U.S. trade benefits for the USSR' with Soviet emigra-
• tion policies. -Church, who supported the Jackson Amendment, said that it resulted "in fewer Jews being allowed to .leave; practically, we have thus lost ground." Church said U.S. support for Soviet Jews should be based on moral pressure being brought to bear on the Soviet Union.
Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin in a message to the conference said that "The present leadership in the Soviet Union has taken the first appropriate steps by recognizing in principle the right of Jews who so wish to emigrate to Israel."
' However, he said, "we will not reconcile ourselves to the continuing policy of intimi¬ dation and suffering inflicted on very many who seek permission to emigrate, so as to intimidate others from emigration. We, the Jewish people, will forever stand firm in our support of the religious and national rights of our Soviet Jewish brethren."
The delegates to the conference included 350 American Jews and non-
Jews. Rabbi Alexander M. ■ Schindler, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, urged both an international drive to permit the free emigration of Soviet Jews and a call to the USSR to allow the revival and revitalization of religious and cultural life for those Jews who wish to remain in the Soviet Union. He said the latter could not be done unless the Soviet government permitted Western Jewish scholars and teachers to come to the USSR to help create new centers for training rabbis, educators and teachers to assure the survival of Soviet Jewry. About 550 Soviet Jews, now
living in Israel, attended the conference. The conference opened with 35 Soviet Jews, led by former Red Army Maj. Grisha Feigin marching in waving a blue flag with a gold Star of David which Feigin said was the flag of Soviet Jewry. He presented it to Mrs. Meir. A group of Soviet Jews, who recently left the Soviet Union, told a press conference that conditions - have worsened in the USSR, anti-Semitism is increasing and the authorities are cracking down harder than ever before on would-be emigrants.
Christian delegates to the conference from the United States, Britain, Ireland,
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 71
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NEW YORK (WNS) — The Polish government has been asked to make full payment of all pensions and other insurance claims to Polish Jewish survivors of the Holocaust now living outside Poland. The request was made by the American Federation of Polish Jews in a memorandum presented to Vitold Ttomcrynsky, the Polish Ambassador in Washington. The Federation also asked that it be indemnified for Jewish property in Poland which was expropriated by the government. It also called on Polish authorities to preserve and restore Jewish cemeteries, permit the collection of Jewish religious and secular relics and allow them to be taken out of the country, and to permit free access to all historic records on Polish Jewry. The Federation also asked the Polish government to honor its promise "to hand over to the World Federation of Polish Jews one of the prison huts in the former Auschwitz camp so that it could be arranged as a memorial shrine to Jews martyred in that camp."
NEW YORK (WNS) — The people of Israel have sent 46,000 pounds of relief supplies to the earthquake- stricken people of Guatemala. The supplies were flown aboard an Israeli Boeing 707 and two Israeli-built Araya Stol aircrafts. One of the Aravas, which was being delivered to Guatemala by Israel Aircraft Industries, was loaded at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey with medical supplies donated by IAI. Meanwhile in Washington, B'nai B'rkh announced it was gathering funds, supplies and volunteers for Guatemala. Richard Holxer, of Panama City, chairman of B'nai B'rith's International Council, said that Guatemala's small Jewish community has reported no deaths "but widespread loss of material possessions." Max Trachtcberg, president of the B'nai B'rith lodge in Guatemala City, said the quake had severely damaged communal institutions, some of them beyond repair. A campaign for Spanish-speaking physicians to go to Guatemala has been organized by Perry Shertz, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., chairman of B'nai B'rith's Disaster Relief Committee, and Irving I. Gerson, of Metairie, La., who has headed B'nai B'rith hurricane relief driyes. In Los Angeles, Jack pu Weiler, chairman of the Amerieaa Joint Distribution Committee* presented a $10,000 ChecK en behalf of his organization to the Guatemalan' Consul .General for' relief of the earthquake victims. He also volunteered the service of JDC relief workers to aid the earthquake .victims,. ,
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